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In the early 70's, Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam veteran by the age of 20, ends up involved in gangland takeovers of NYC nightclubs. He goes to Miami where he deals billions of dollars of cocaine for the Medellin drug cartel and ultimately spends 10 years in prison.

A baby chimp is adopted by pop star Michael Jackson. Bubbles the Chimp details his life within The King of Pop's inner circle through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to Bubbles’ release.

Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.

A silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar finds popularity starring in Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films.

Adolf Tolkachev, a senior engineer in a top-secret Soviet aerospace laboratory, becomes one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. during the Cold War.

In Yemen, young Muslim Mohammed Al Samawi's discovery of the Bible leads him to become a peace activist. His life, in the ensuing civil war, is threatened and then saved as four American activists he barely knew come together via Facebook and use social media to activate their networks and crowd-source a rescue mission.

Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer, transforms Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise.

The story of Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill who delivered the shot that killed Osama bin Laden during a 2011 raid.

A woman spends her entire life as a man so she can study and practice medicine. She becomes a prominent surgeon who spends her groundbreaking career championing the rights of the lower classes and pushing for medical reforms and better sanitary conditions. Her true gender is not discovered until her death in 1865.

Dare Wright becomes well-known in the 1950s thanks to her best-selling children's book "The Lonely Doll." Wright lives a bizarre life of glamour and isolation, and she struggles to escape her painful childhood through her art. Wright passes away in 2001 at the age of 86.

Jim Obergefell marries his spouse John Arthur in Maryland in 2013, three months before Arthur dies. The state of Ohio refuses to list him as John's spouse on the death certificate, so Obergefell sues. He is the lead plaintiff in a U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively legalizes same-sex marriage.

During the 1970s, FBI agents Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan infiltrate the world of Phillip Kitzer Jr, a Minnesota swindler who masterminds dozens of multimillion-dollar schemes, such as selling worthless securities from bogus offshore enterprises. His international network of associates is known as The Fraternity.

The film follows a young girl, Dáyami, living in a Mexican border town who tries to send her Christmas list to Santa tied to a balloon. The balloon is found by Randy and Marcella Heiss, a couple in Arizona grieving the loss of their own child, who make it their mission to fulfill the girl’s touching Christmas wishes.

The account of a Navy SEAL translator in Iraq. The translator took part in more than 1,000 missions over a six-year period.

A PTA President named Kelli Peters is framed from drug possession by a set of parents. Peters is arrested and investigated but the truth eventually comes out and, after a five-year ordeal, she wins a $5.7 million-dollar civil judgment against the couple.

Anita Moorjani battles against cancer for four years. Overwhelmed by malignant cells, her body begins shutting down. As her organs fail, she enters into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realizes her inherent worth and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, her condition improves. Within three days, 70% of her cancer is gone. Shortly after, she is declared cancer free.

Ernest Shackleton leads three British expeditions to the Antarctic. His ship Endurance is crushed by ice floes and he manages to keep everyone alive in a harrowing journey to safety in sub zero temperatures.

American humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan travels to Somalia to help children only to be kidnapped by militants and held for ransom for 93 days. Her captors are killed by Navy SEALs in a dramatic rescue mission in January 2012.